Letter: Some ideas to improve things in Illinois

Revoke all handicap parking permits and make everyone re-apply. This time, only the truly handicapped would get privileged parking.

Raise the lesser payout amounts once any of the lottery jackpots reach $300 million.

Expand our prisons to hold more prisoners (the longer the better).

Make the utility companies bury those unsightly power and telephone lines and get rid of the poles.

Require unemployed people receiving state assistance to work at least one day a week for the county.

Enact the Parental Responsibility Act. Require single mothers applying for state assistance to identify the father. If the father refuses to support the child, we’d get to make use of those expanded prison facilities.

Return to state employees the benefits they lost during previous corrupt administrations.

Substantially reduce tax fraud by phasing out the state’s sales tax and income tax (individual and corporate) and phasing in a simple, broad-based gross receipts tax.

Establish a referendum website for Illinoisans to vote on the above and other proposals as well as to suggest other ways to improve government. This would give us a true voice rather than the elected representatives we now have who serve only themselves.

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